Michael Sacci
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Sohrab, 720p on DSLR, You can get into in worse moraying and liaising. But each shooter has test it out for themselves. Not saying don’t do it as much as really test it out first. If you (and your client) like the results that is all that matters.
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The problem I see so many times is people want expects in the field to work for free, or for the “experience.”
My favorite – “Need editor/cameramen/colorist/fill-in-the-blank, to help me on this unbelievably cool project of mine. There is no pay but the experience to work with me is more than enough. Please send resume, demo reel and references to…”
But Steve, if you are offering real training to the person this is exactly what an intern program is for. But as others have said, they will often slow you down but if you find a good one you can both profit from the relationship. As long as you are truly giving something to other person it is very ethical. Best way to do this is to work with them (train them) while not on the set. That way they have a little experience to go on.
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[Tory Stewart] ” but am unclear as to whether that means that each shoot date will start over again with Card 1″ Yes with this method you would have card01 on every day. But you would (at least I do) what to have the card# last, that way the date will determine the order they are listed, or least all the card01 would be before the card02 even when shot days later.
I don’t add the reel name in FCP or even Log and Transfer. I name the folders that the cards are copied into with this convention and then the folder names are the Reel Names.
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Transcribing is the process of type out all the dialog in the video along with the TimeCode. There is special software that have players built in to more it more efficient. Of course there are places that will do this for you.
You do not HAVE to do it if you don’t need to have it. If you are trying to do a paper edit of a documentary it is a must but people work without them all the time but there are useful.
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I did test the footage on his drive after copying the files over but not on his computer. We will be shooting in a couple of weeks and I will take some time to check it out. Trying to talk him through stuff is more trouble then it is worth.
Thanks for trying. Good to know about the P2CMS giving the DVCProHD codec, makes sense that it would be didn’t know it did before.
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all the ones he tried.
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You need to be in Log and Transfer and have the Canon E1 plugin installed (and you select ProRes in the Pref). If you don’t convert the files as you import them you will have to do a lot of rendering.
[John Kabasakalis] “My Capture Preset reads HDV-ProRes 422…”
You are not capturing anything so that setting would not effect anything. And you don’t want that because the sequence are 1440×1080 instead of the full raster 1920×1080.Normally I just start with a clean sequence drop a clip I know has the right codec/framerate on to it. It will yes if you want to change the settings to match the clip, you say yes and you are good to go. Of course the but IF is that your clips have been brought into FCP via Log and Transfer.
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To get quality WMV you really need additional software to have a fighting chance. PowerPoint can take a lot of video formats. I would have them test a H264 video, it will be easier to get quality even with the out of the box Compressor.
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This has nothing to do with DVD Authoring but…
The .mov extension just means it is a quicktime wrapper, it can be anything on the inside.
What is the audio codec used in the file? QT player> Movie Inspector, it sounds like the audio codec is not to Vegas’ liking, you can transcode it to a format that Vegas can work with.
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I would shoot the Panny at 720p@24p and the Canon at 1080@24p, then I would convert the canon stuff to 720@23.98 DVCPorHD to match the Panny stuff.
Test the T2i shooting 720 most people don’t like it.
Biggest thing to do is to make sure the frame-rate is the same, not a problem to trancode to another resolution.